Food and close handy cover are nescessities.
Liked On: 06-06-2021, 06:44 PM
So you saw at least one hunter there.
Liked On: 06-06-2021, 06:44 PM
Country like that is a waste of time. needs more cover and at least younger trees half grown before animals move back in there. At night the odd animal may wander in but they not going to be out...
Liked On: 06-06-2021, 06:43 PM
i used to work at a local timber mill and had access to a large forest.deer were always in the trees and would find pigs out in the open sometimes
Liked On: 06-06-2021, 05:47 PM
Food. Shelter from the wind. Cover from predatory eyes. Not seeing any of it, not country I'd bother with, you could bump pigs down in the gully bottoms though.
Liked On: 06-06-2021, 05:13 PM
I haven't hunted much forestry but in my experience the animals prefer to have somewhere to hide, even if the hunting pressure is quite low they just don't seem to like being so exposed.
Liked On: 06-06-2021, 05:13 PM
I think it's Log scale base 10. Non linear. 0db no sound. 10db is X10, 20db is x100, 30db is x1000. Etc. So 120db is another factor of 10 over 110db
Liked On: 26-05-2021, 11:00 PM
After a fair few tries getting deer on public land and feeling like a failure every time I went home empty handed, yesterday I finally succeeded. It was supposed to be a rainy couple of days so I was...
Liked On: 03-05-2021, 10:44 PM
bigbear it was interesting, placed in wrong category and the trade me algorithm didn't kick in. No licence details required. Might be to good to be true, we'll see.
Liked On: 02-05-2021, 08:35 PM
Synthetic. Thanks for the heads up, purchased it this morning. Cheers
Liked On: 02-05-2021, 04:59 PM
164471 Well can't afford a Carbonlight so sorta moded my own Tikka t3x 6.5 creedmoor with vx3i shooting sub 1/2MOA@200yrds
Liked On: 08-04-2021, 08:39 PM
My favourite all-rounder. 300 saum (could well be a 300wsm), 20" barrel, Sako A7 (they top load). Stug stock. 165 grn at 3k. Decent 3-15 'scope. 30 cals make big holes. 164421
Liked On: 05-04-2021, 08:51 AM
Hunting rifle 164411 Sako Finn A-Tec suppressor NIghtforce 2.5-10x42 Optilock ringmounts Previously 140gr Amax@ 2750 Currently 120GR Bt's at 2950. 6.5x55. Shooting rifle
Liked On: 04-04-2021, 08:06 PM
After a doing the hard yards on a couple of fruitless over night deer missions lately, the aim for the long weekend was find some goats to give my oldest ( Arlo 8) an option of shooting one now his...
Liked On: 04-04-2021, 12:19 PM
Up 4am Saturday morning and headed off to hanmer to meet a couple of mates and walk into Waiua hut hoping to stumble upon a red deer or maybe chamois . Left the truck and was reasonable weather ....
Liked On: 02-04-2021, 09:37 AM